Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting videolan package, versions [,1.0.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
9.32% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VIDEOLAN-2371258
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Dec 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Dec 2014

CVE-2010-2062  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade videolan to version 1.0.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Integer underflow in the real_get_rdt_chunk function in real.c, as used in modules/access/rtsp/real.c in VideoLAN VLC media player before 1.0.1 and stream/realrtsp/real.c in MPlayer before r29447, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted length value in an RDT chunk header.

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